The more that is heard about last night's Blue Bar's forced closing, the less it adds up. Other bars in Wuxi were open last night and did not get flak for showing any disrespect. The crowd, of a thousand or so, that showed up outside the Blue Bar came a little too quickly to have been part of a spontaneous demonstration.
What appears to have happened is that a local media personality of the muckraking variety caused the incident to occur. (I didn't know Wuxi had muckrakers, but they do within proscribed limits)The woman* was in the Blue Bar, had a beer, and then made some complaints and impossible demands as a pretext for having the crowd come.
The Blue Bar will be closed, possibly for the rest of the week, till the heat dies down. There are rumors that there will be trouble when the bar reopens. The incident is the buzz all over Wuxi and not just among the local Expat population. Every Chinese employee at my school could be seen reading the link I posted in a previous entry.
*This women had befriended one of our trainers who frequents the pub. They had been seeing each other for a few weeks. Although, probably not anymore. I have just been told that a few years ago, a journalist had come to a local Expat pub, conducted interviews and told her Chinese audience about foreigners making good money in China and wasting it at local pubs.
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